The English house-vvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

To make paste of Quinces. ☞

To make paste of Quinces: first boile your Quinces whole and when they are soft, pare them and cut the Quince from the core; then take the finest sugar you can get finely beaten and seased, and put in a little Rose-wa∣ter and boie it together til it be thicke; then pu in the cut Quinces and so boyle them together tll it be stffe enough to mold, and when it is cold, then role it and print it; a pound of Quinces will take a pound of sugar, Page  123 or neere thereabouts.